The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.
I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
Changing my name was traumatic for me.
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.